I suggest a feature which needs a good title, for the lack of which I will call, Learning to Die. Each human is composed of billions of cells which are built by the sustenance we take into our bodies. The cells pass through at a dizzying speed, some being a living part of us for only as long as 24 hours or so, the rest for varying periods of time up to an approximate maximum of seven years. Thus, we recycle (die) literally at least once every seven years but keep our identity by virtue of the fact that all of ourselves never recycle simultaneously, except the last time.

If people could learn to understand that they consist of many billions of cells, all coming from nature, and all returning to nature albeit at varying rates of speed. If people could understand that those cells return to nature as they wear out, only to become part of another birth of new, and beautiful, young life, then perhaps people could learn how to die.

--Leonard Benfell
HoU Chapter Member